Stories from Africa

Passengers including hundreds of Nigerians on board Air France operated commercial Aircraft from France to Lagos and Abuja have since Wednesday been stranded at Charles De Gaulle International Airport, Paris. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many of them have to sleep at the airport from Wednesday for...

The PSA’s 240 000 members will down tools on Monday over wages in what the union has dubbed a ”day of rage’,’ after it refused to sign the three-year public service wage deal with government. ”We are expecting disruptions in the economy and closing down of all border gates. We...

Dozens of flights from Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa have been delayed after air traffic controllers went on strike. It’s not clear yet why the workers have downed their tools. “I am aboard KQ flight 401 to Nairobi, which has now been delayed by more than an hour and the pilot...

Cairo Airport authorities announced on Friday a state of emergency due to dusty weather and strong winds that led to low visibility on the airstrip. According to sources at Cairo Airport on Friday, the airstrip was exposed in the early hours of Friday to waves of dust storms that affected...

Maureen Ihua-Maduenyi Many domestic flights were on Wednesday delayed or cancelled outright as the harmattan haze, which the country has been experiencing in the last few weeks, became more serious. Our correspondent gathered that apart from Lagos-Abuja-Lagos flights, which operated normally, flights on many other routes were cancelled due to...

Flights to and from Dakar’s brand-new airport were cancelled on Friday after air traffic controllers went on strike just eight days after it opened. Controllers announced they would strike for 24 hours from 0001 GMT Friday, Blaise Diagne International Airport’s operators, LAS, said in a statement. The company “deplores the...